How to Reset a Seagate External Drive
By Joshua Laud
Updated September 28, 2017
Hard drives can often begin to slow down, get full, or become corrupt. If you have a Seagate external hard drive that is slowing down, you can reset it to its original state. This process will remove all data, but the drive will run and respond much more quickly than it previously did. If you want to reset the Seagate external hard drive, then you can do so using the Windows operating system. Resetting a hard drive is different than resetting a blank CD or floppy disk, and requires you to use administrative settings.
Click "Start," "Control Panel," "System and Maintenance," then "Administrative Tools." Double-click "Computer Management" and enter your password to load the settings.
Click "Disk Management," then locate your Seagate external hard drive.
Right-click the drive and click "Format." Click "OK," if you want to reset the drive using the existing settings; you can choose to change the name of the drive. It is not recommended to reset the file format system as it will be set, by default, for your current operating system.
Click "OK" to begin the formatting process. Once a dialogue box displays "Finished," you will have reset your Seagate external hard drive.
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Joshua Laud started writing professionally in 2008. During his three years at University he worked freelance for various music publications including "Clash Magazine" and "total:spec," and online Data Transmission and Music is Art. Laud also specializes in technology writing. He has a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from the University of London.